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  • Revive Spell – Craig Calderwood

    Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 13th, 6-9pm.

    SLEEPY WHALE_MG_3103_Mido Lee

    “Revive Spell” is the third Installment of my piece “Beast of Burden” a large scale interspecies soft sculpture that now exists as a skin. In this install I attempt to bring the overkilled piece back, casting a revive spell with the aid of the trangels. Cue Rosa’s Theme.

    Photo Credit: Mido Lee Productions.

  • SF Cinematheque and Gray Area present: Perpetual Motion

    September 16–December 7, 2016
    Gray Area / Grand Theater  2665 Mission Street  San Francisco
    PERPETUAL MOTION
    Perpetual Motionis the most comprehensive convergence of international performance cinema practitioners ever assembled in the Bay Area. Presented over seven evenings September 16–December 7, 2016, with all artists performing in person, this series is curated by San Francisco Cinematheque and will be presented at Gray Area’s historic Grand Theater, located in San Francisco’s Mission District.
    Performance Cinema is an exciting and emergent genre of avant-garde moving-image art which represents a crucial attack on the sterility of the contemporary, digitally-located media environment, advocating for the embodied, collective consideration of real-time, site-specific media experiences. Through mis-used or modified analog film projectors, live video synthesis and physical interaction with the media interface, performance cinema practitioners variously burn, etch, mutilate and destroy projected film, machinery and the image itself. These artists create immersive spectacles of sight and sound, opening a space for questioning and contemplating visual culture through direct activation of the senses. As a dynamic, regenerating and resurrecting media experience, Performance Cinema exists only in the present and is truly an art of its time.

    September 16 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program One: Dust to Dust
    arc (Oakland) / Jürgen Reble (Germany) / Trinchera Ensamble (Mexico City/Seattle)
    Advance tickets here.
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    September 17 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Two: Ghosts in the Machines
    Scott Arford (Oakland) / Michael A. Morris (Dallas) / Le Révélateur  (Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig; Montréal)
    Advance tickets here.
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    October 11 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Three: Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern
    Ken Jacobs (NYC)
    Advance tickets here.
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    October 26 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Four: Natural Forces
    Beige (Vanessa O’Neill and Kent Long; Richmond) / Keith Evans (Bolinas) / Karl Lemieux (Montréal) + BJ Nilsen (Sweden)
    Advance tickets here.
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    November 9 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Five: Spectres
    John Davis (Vallejo) / Kerry Laitala (San Francisco) + Voicehandler (Norway/Oakland) / Raha Raissnia (Tehran/Brooklyn) + Panagiotis Mavridis (Greece/Brooklyn)
    Advance tickets here.
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    November 22 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Six: Birth / Death / Resurrection
    Malic Amalya + Nathan Hill (Oakland) / Sally Golding (Australia/UK) / Hangjun Lee (Seoul) + Jerome Noetinger (Grenoble)
    Advance tickets here.
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    December 7 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Seven: Cinema of Confrontation / The End
    Bruce McClure (Brooklyn) / Greg Pope (UK/Norway) + Sult (Norway/Oakland)
    Advance tickets here.
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    Perpetual Motion is a presentation of San Francisco Cinematheque in partnership with Gray Area and is supported by generous funding from the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and by generous donations from Cinematheque’s individual donors and members.

  • Call For Submission

    The Echo Park Film Center is currently seeking film submissions for a 5 part series showcasing experimental work by filmmakers of color based in the United States.

    We’re looking for works that fall under the any of following categories:

    Portraits of Self and Identity,

    Found and Appropriated Footage,

    Social Justice,

    Dance, Movement, and Rhythm,

    Cameraless Films

    Films utilizing super 8 and 16mm are highly encouraged but all mediums are welcome.

    If you would like your film to be considered, please email the following information to sendbrendaanemail@gmail.com:

    Director’s name

    Link to the film (and password if required)

    Short description

    Year

    Format